Watchdog Says Biden’s Education Secretary Violated Law By Using Office To Attack Republicans

A watchdog group has accused 🎓Education Secretary Miguel Cardona of violating federal law by sending a mass email attacking Republicans for opposing student debt cancellation.

Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) called the email “glaringly political” and filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and the 🎓Education Department(ED) inspector general accusing the 🎓Education secretary of violating the Hatch Act, which limits federal employees from using their office to engage in partisan political activities intended to influence the outcome of an election. Through his email, Cardona characterized Republican elected officials as “siding with special interests and trying to block Americans from accessing all the benefits of the most affordable student loan repayment plan in history” while praising the Biden-Harris administration for “fighting” on behalf of Americans, according to a PPT press release.

“Let me be clear: President Biden and I are determined to lower costs for student loan borrowers, to make repaying student affordable and realistic, and to build on our separate efforts that have already provided relief to 4.75 million Americans — no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stop us,” a portion of the email reads. “While we disagree with the Republican elected officials’ efforts here to side with special interests and block borrowers from getting breathing room on their student loans, President Biden and our Administration will not stop fighting to make sure Americans have affordable access to the lifechanging opportunities a higher